#malefics

Venus, Jupiter and Sun are abundant and giving.

The rest of the planets are receptive in one way or another.

Saturn receives and limits/crystalizes

Mercury receives and manipulates

Ketu receives and absorbs completely

Rahu receives and projects outwardly

Moon receives gives back the smoothed mixture of what it recieved

Mars receives and builds/protects.

Out of these, Mars and Rahu look active, but they are not energetically abundant. Mars can sometimes be tho, depending on how much of the energy is left in them, but it's still not giving, it's protective.

The three giving plantes do not give in the same way either.

Venus only gives to whom and what it considers worthy but then, when it chooses, it gives its all.

Jupiter gives to everyone and everything, especially to those who it thinks need it most.

I’ve discussed some of the implications of the concept of Sect here before, specifically the idea of the Sect Light and what that might mean in terms of identifying with your chart. Today I’m going to go a bit deeper into the concept and provide you with a workable foundation to continue experimenting with this concept in your practice.

It’s not just the Sun and Moon that wax and wane in power dependent on whether it is day or night, but also the benefics and malefics as well. These are organized in to “teams” if you will, and in a chart that matches their sect these planets do much better. That is to say, in a chart that matches its sect a benefic will be more powerful and thus better able to manifest its blessings for a native. In a chart that matches its sect a malefic will be less likely to manifest the negative extremes of its capabilities, and in some cases you might see “positive” benefit from them. Should the chart not match its sect, a planet would be less able to bear beneficial fruit. A benefic is less capable of providing positive outcome, and a malefic is more capable of providing negative outcome.

REMEMBER, this concept is the VERY BASIC starting point of determining planetary power and what a given planet may manifest in a lifetime, so hold the dramatics until you master all the techniques that deal with this. There are many other things at play that would modify how these might play out, so it’s not a guarantee that your life is shit should you have a planet out of sect. (It should be clear that it is impossible to have all the planets in sect, and life is not all sunshine and daisies.)

The Sect alignments are as follows:

Diurnal (Day) Sect:

Sun

Jupiter

Saturn

Nocturnal (Night) Sect:

Moon

Venus

Mars

Saturn: She makes us lose our balance, she makes us think, she forces us to understand even when we fight back. Saturn suffocates us, makes us feel constricted and she might bring about an internal chaos if not resolved. Through her punishments we eventually learn to dispose of what is not needed, that is if she decides not take it away first. When lessons are learned, we can become transformed and blessed with hidden gifts. The agony we may feel now (especially for those going through a Saturn Return) will truly test and better us. Spiritually we will feel stronger and although we might be physically weaker, her gifts will  be the tools we need to continue on our journey.

this transit is quite heavy, serious, and with some powerful "malefic" influence. but it's very good for change, growth, and revolt where needed which i hope plays out positively on a large scale. on a personal level just plan out your villain era, you don't need to enact it yet.